Growing Vegetables features clear, beginner-friendly guides on how to grow popular crops in the UK. Learn when to plant, how to care for vegetables through the season, and how to improve yields in gardens and allotments.
The easy vegetables to grow in the UK are the ones that forgive mistakes: salad leaves, radishes, courgettes, beetroot, runner beans, potatoes and chard all crop reliably in a British summer with basic care. After twenty years of growing in Oxfordshire, these are the crops I hand to every beginner, because a first season with … Read more
In the UK, most vegetable sowing starts in March, often under cover at first. The busiest months are March to May, with tender crops usually planted outside After mid-May when frost risk drops — see What to Plant in May in the UK for the full breakdown. Use this month-by-month guide as a baseline, then … Read more